"The void in fact was caused by my presence when I did not understand her, because that meant that I saw only the external shape of her body, so to speak, but not what really mattered—herself. We were strangers: I became alien to her. (...) It gradually transpired that she felt in a void and/or empty of herself in the presence of people who were, so to speak, in another world but did not recognize this fact, or failed to recognize that she was in another world."